My Research

I am a researcher with broad range of interests across the humanities and social sciences; my background is in philosophy, languages, linguistics, and education. Most recently, my research has focused on the metaphorical application of ‘investment’ in human skill development, i.e. of language. For all research-related inquiries or requests do so vialinguavest.dev

Previous research:

James, M. W. (2022). L2 Investment in African languages: a multiple case study of successful white learners of African languages in post-apartheid South Africa (Doctoral thesis, University of Cambridge).

Moulin‐Stozek, D., & James, M. W. (2022). Religion and Social Development in Childhood. The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development, 405-421.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119679028.ch22

James, M. W. (2017). The motivations of South African students with L1 English for learning isiXhosa as an additional language: a mixed methods study. (MPhil thesis. University of Cambridge).

James, M. W. (2016). Unity and Diversity, Love and Conflict: An Exploration of the Philosophy of Life in CS Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy. (MA thesis, Rhodes University).http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7345